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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC San Diego men's tennis team posted several strong results playing against NCAA Division I competition this past week at the UCSB Classic in Santa Barbara.

In singles play, Kona Luu placed sixth overall of 16 competitors in the B flight. The junior won his first match against Fabio Tomasetti of Northern Arizona to advance in the winner's bracket. After dropping the first set, 1-6, Luu came back to win the next two by scores of 6-1 and 6-4. He was defeated in straight sets by Bryce McKelvie of UC Davis before taking a default victory over Cal's Jack Sanford. In the fifth-place contest, Luu fell to UC Santa Barbara's Corey Karen, 6-4 and 6-4.

Two of UCSD's doubles teams finished third out of eight squads.

In the doubles A flight, Luu and sophomore Horea Porutiu opened with an 8-6 win against UC Santa Barbara's Teague Hamilton and Andrew Riminton. Following an 8-1 loss to Cal's Wyatt Houghton and Chase Melton, the duo took third by default over Nikhil Jayashankar and Sanford from Cal.

UCSD had two teams playing in the doubles B flight. In the first round, Maxence Dutreix and Rajeev Herekar defeated UCLA's Ryoto Tachi and Nishanth Yamani, 8-4, while Mark Meyer and Andrew Malozsak took down Kester Black and Tomasetti of NAU, 8-6. Both squads lost against teams from UCSB in the next round, which set up a meeting between the two Triton sides for third place. In a tightly-contested match, Dutreix and Herekar pulled out an 8-6 victory.

UCSD breaks from competition until rounding out its fall slate at the SoCal Intercollegiates, which will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 3 in Los Angeles.